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Routes, Flights and Current Position
The CSN-F9’s typical ΔV budget is about 100 km/s. Jumps offer instantaneous travels of hundreds of light-years. However they conserve momentum and require some significant maneuvering. As a result long-distance journeys across the galaxy must be split into smaller trips between refueling stops.
In this context the total journey is called a (galactic) Route, and it is split into a sequence of Flights.
The ship’s nav station provides all the necessary tools to plan both routes and flights.
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Flight Planner
Its role is to compute the maneuvers, jumps and the resulting trajectory that lead the ship from its departure to its intended destination.
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Route Planner
Operates on the galactic map and proposes sequences of flights and refueling stops for long-distance journeys.
However navigation also technically refers to the action of determining the ship’s current position:
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Navigation Signal
The ship's location information as processed from the various positioning sensors and the inertial navigation units.